Environment And Embodiment in Early Modern England

by Floyd-Wilson, Mary; Sullivan, Garrett A., Jr

• ISBN13: 9781403997746
• ISBN10: 1403997748
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Focusing on selfhood, embodiment and environment in the early modern world, this volume approaches a range of literary and cultural texts from an ecological perspective-one in which the microcosmic body is seen as continuous with and permeated by the macrocosmic environment.

Author Biography

MARY FLOYD-WILSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She is the author of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama (2003) and co-editor of Reading the Early Modern Passions (2004).

Table of Contents

Introduction--G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson * Why Spongy Brains in Humoral Bodies Needed Material Memories: Early Modern Exograms as Cognitive Technologies--J.Sutton * 'Hastily gobled up': Travel and Digestion in Coryat's Crudities--D.J.Baker * The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels, and Severed Heads--J.Egan * Spelling the Body--T.Pollard * Affective Irony: Towards an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage--S.Mullaney * Inconstancy and Contract in Stuart Melodrama--K.Rowe * The Material Point of Poesy: Writing, Sensation and the Passions in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik * Marvell's Amazing Garden--M.Thomas Crane * The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History--E.D.Harvey * Nashe's Dream of Invisibility: Language and the Body in Terrors of the Night--C.Marshall * 'Eating Well': Or, Stealing Food from the Table of the Great--J.Yates * Afterword--G.Kern Paster * Index

Introduction--G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson * Why Spongy Brains in Humoral Bodies Needed Material Memories: Early Modern Exograms as Cognitive Technologies--J.Sutton * 'Hastily gobled up': Travel and Digestion in Coryat's Crudities--D.J.Baker * The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels, and Severed Heads--J.Egan * Spelling the Body--T.Pollard * Affective Irony: Towards an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage--S.Mullaney * Inconstancy and Contract in Stuart Melodrama--K.Rowe * The Material Point of Poesy: Writing, Sensation and the Passions in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik * Marvell's Amazing Garden--M.Thomas Crane * The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History--E.D.Harvey * Nashe's Dream of Invisibility: Language and the Body in Terrors of the Night--C.Marshall * 'Eating Well': Or, Stealing Food from the Table of the Great--J.Yates * Afterword--G.Kern Paster * Index